I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Just before taking office, Governor Rick Snyder, a multi-millionaire former venture capitalist and Gateway computer executive, made good on a campaign promise to avoid financial conflicts of interest by establishing a blind trust.
According to spokeswoman Geralyn Lasher, as of Dec. 30 Snyder’s money is being managed by someone else. On Friday evening Snyder’s office released the preamble to the trust which states:
“I [RDS] wish scrupulously to avoid the possibility that decisions that I make as Governor could be influenced by my own financial interests. I, accordingly, exercise my power to amend my Trust to make the Trust “blind” during my term in office. By this Amendment, I entrust to the Independent Trustee all decisions as to when and to what extent the Trust assets are to be sold or disposed of and in what investment the net proceeds of any sale are to be reinvested, and I shall not participate in, or have knowledge of, such investment decisions.
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